Except for the stern-faced police officers standing guard while a swarm of television journalists jostled for the best vantage points, Gulshan Road No. 79 looked no different this Sunday.
Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and author who fought for peace, human rights and simple human decency, has died at the age of 87, a spokesman for Israel's Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, said Saturday.
Australia's national election is too close to call after a large protest vote against the government left the country at risk of its second hung parliament in six years.
Elie Wiesel moved his readers with his words. In his books and in his speeches, he eloquently spoke for a generation of wounded people, the traumatized survivors of the Holocaust.
Mark Cavendish claimed the yellow jersey of the Tour de France for the first time in his glittering career by taking the opening stage in a blistering sprint finish at Utah Beach Saturday.
All the attackers in the deadly assault on a cafe in Dhaka were Bangladeshi citizens, and five of them were militants that police had tried to arrest previously.
The Antarctic ozone layer, which shields the Earth from harmful ultraviolet rays, shows encouraging signs that it's beginning to heal, according to research published in the journal Science.
Gunmen seized a bakery in Dhaka on Friday night, killing 20 hostages and two officers in a siege that ended Saturday morning, the Bangladeshi military said.
Six-time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt has withdrawn from the Jamaican national athletics championships, but says he still hopes to compete in the Rio Games.
The alleged organizer of the Istanbul airport massacre is a well known militant who served as a top lieutenant in ISIS' war ministry, a U.S. official said.
More than 62 million girls worldwide are not in school. The First Lady writes, after a trip to Africa, that we have the power and responsibility to change that.
